Anglo-Norseadj.n.
/ˌaŋɡləʊˈnɔːs/, U.S. /ˌæŋɡloʊˈnɔrs/ A. adj.
1. Of or relating to the Scandinavians in England during the medieval period.Scandinavian settlement took place in parts of England from the 9th cent. onwards. Cf. Danelaw n.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [adjective] > and other
French-English1580
Anglo-German1683
Anglo-American1769
Anglo-Welsh1772
Anglo-French1797
Anglo-Russian?1800
Anglo-Turkish?1800
Anglo-Indian1805
Anglo-Irish1810
Anglo-Scandinavian1836
Anglo-Egyptian1838
Hiberno-English1840
Anglo-Jewish1843
Anglo-Norse1872
Anglo-Boer1881
Anglo-Roman1913
Anglo-Soviet1920
Anglo-Arab1923
Anglo-Frisian1955
1872 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 1 p. xvii The Anglo-Danish or Anglo-Norse aristocracy may have been somewhat more diminished, by slaughter and emigration, that the commonality, whose blood may have had a larger admixture of the Keltic element.
1904 Mod. Philol. 2 72 An extensive saga of..Anglo-Norse origin in which Offa, Wade, and Hildebrand figured prominently.
1992 Tempo No. 181. 52/2 This low consciousness of Iceland is odd given the close ethnic connexions with the Anglo-Norse population of Northern Britain.
2. Designating the variety of Old Norse spoken and written in England during the medieval period; of or relating to this.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic > Scandinavian
Scandian1668
Scandinavian1784
Nordic1824
Norse1844
Anglo-Norse1927
1927 E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse 304 The Anglo-Norse form borrowed in English..shows no trace of the fronting of g.
1936 P. Thorson (title) Anglo-Norse Studies. An Inquiry into the Scandinavian Elements in the Modern English Dialects.
1950 Lang. 26 52 The Anglo-Norse use of y for the essential umlaut vowel nuance.
1997 Speculum 72 872 A survey of scholarship on English and Anglo-Norse runes.
B. n.
The variety of Old Norse spoken in England during the medieval period.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > Scandinavian > in 9th-12th century England
Anglo-Norse1927
1927 E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse 306 The change of Norse w to bilabial v had not taken place in Anglo-Norse.
1998 L. I. House Introd. Phonetics & Phonol. 227 It is believed the Danes spoke a language called Anglo-Norse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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